“Only a crisis — actual or perceived — produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to

BW FILE PHOTOBy Chloe Mari A. Hufana, ReporterAT LEAST three Philippine regions are expected to announce wage increases this month, the Labor department said on Monday.The Ilocos, Western Visayas and Zamboanga Peninsula regions will release new orders increasing their daily

EMAD EL-BYED-UNSPLASHMORE THAN 1,300 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) from war-torn areas in the Middle East have come home since October 2023, the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) said on Monday.DMW Secretary Hans Leo J. Cacdac said 1,326 OFWs from Israel,

BW FILE PHOTOTHE PHILIPPINES’ Health and Education departments on Monday launched an P853-million catch-up vaccination program that seeks to immunize more than 3 million students against diseases such as measles, rubella, tetanus, diphtheria (MR, Td) and human papillomavirus (HPV).In a

PEXELS-ELEMENT DIGITALFORMER SENATORS Emmanuel “Manny” D. Pacquiao and Gregorio “Gringo” B. Honasan II, who both failed to secure a national post in 2022, on Monday filed their certificates of candidacy (CoC) at the Manila Hotel in a bid to return